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Image used for representation purpose only. India’s net direct tax collections grew 21.8% to ₹9.57 lakh crore by October 9, surpassing over half of the Budget estimates for this year, with personal income tax revenues rising 32.5% and corporate taxes increasing 12.4%. While tax refunds amounting to ₹1.5 lakh crore have been remitted to taxpayers…
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Tata Passenger Electric Mobility, Head Marketing, Sales and Service Strategy, Vivek Srivatsa says that EVs are the future and the company is creating charging infrastructure to boost sales Tata Motors Ltd., (TML) is on-track to sell about 1,00,000 electric passenger cars during the current fiscal year, according to Vivek Srivastava, Head Marketing, Sales and Service…
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The preparations for the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) is underway as ISRO is about to commence unmanned flight tests for the Gaganyaan Mission, in Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: ANI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will execute the first of multiple test flights ahead of the Gaganyaan mission — India’s first manned mission…
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Rajasthan goes to polls on November 30 New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday claimed there is no anti-incumbency against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in Rajasthan and the party will buck the trend of alternating governments in the desert state. Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi made the remarks after chairing a meeting of the party’s screening committee…
The imposition of severe restrictions on independent media by governments has become “a recurring feature of the continuing crisis of democracy in South Asia”, prominent academicians, journalists and activists from the region have noted, calling for a collective response from South Asia. “The unending assault on free expression and democratic rights in South Asia is…
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The story so far: On Monday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for 2023 was being awarded to Harvard University Professor Claudia Goldin for “having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”. Her work, it said, is the “first comprehensive account of women’s earning and labour…
Australian Parliamentary Speaker Milton Dick in Chennai. | Photo Credit: Akhila Easwaran Security and trade cooperation between India and Australia are gathering pace, and relations between the two “rich and vibrant democracies” have never been stronger, said Milton Dick, Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives. In an interview with The Hindu, Mr. Dick said Australia…
The anti-terror agency had registered a case in January 2016 (File) New Delhi: A special NIA court here convicted an operative of banned global terror group ISIS and sentenced him to seven years in jail, an official said on Tuesday. Adnan Hassan, who was arrested on January 29, 2016, over his affiliation with ISIS, was…
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Supreme Court asked the lawyer to approach the high court with the grievance (File) New Delhi: There may be a thousand issues meriting attention but everything cannot be entertained to make the Supreme Court dysfunctional, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud said on Tuesday while declining to hear an interim plea on the deaths of…
New Delhi: The war between Israel and the Hamas – in which over 1,600 people have died so far and more than two lakh displaced – has spawned a political row in India after the Congress released a statement expressing the party’s “long-standing support for the rights of the Palestinian people”. The BJP, which has…